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Title: Zyxel FTP site gone
Post by: tubaman on October 08, 2021, 03:03:49 PM
Perhaps I'm missing something but it seems that Zyxel have all but pulled their ftp site. This was at ftp://ftp.zyxel.com/ but that now only has entries for a few NAS devices.
While trying to find out what is going on I stumbled upon this announcement - https://support.zyxel.eu/hc/en-us/articles/360018155520-Security-Announcement-Change-FTP-Service-to-HTTPS-Download-Service - saying that all downloads would move to their Download Library (although it was certainly still working sometime after March of this year). The big problem there is that none of the firmware for older devices is available (eg VMG8924-B10A).
Looks like Zyxel have effectively cut off us users of their older hardware now.
 >:(
Title: Re: Zyxel FTP site gone
Post by: meritez on October 08, 2021, 03:24:31 PM
Looking for a more recent archive:
https://archive.org/download/ftp.zyxel.com

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Name Last modified Size
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2014.06.ftp.zyxel.com.tar (View Contents) 09-Jun-2014 10:42 58.2G
2014.06.ftp.zyxel.com.tar.txt 09-Jun-2014 08:43 1.5M
ftp.zyxel.com_archive.torrent 05-Oct-2016 04:11 293.2K
ftp.zyxel.com_files.xml 05-Oct-2016 04:11 1.7K
ftp.zyxel.com_meta.sqlite 09-Jun-2014 11:07 9.0K
ftp.zyxel.com_meta.xml 05-Oct-2016 04:02 753.0B
Title: Re: Zyxel FTP site gone
Post by: Alex Atkin UK on October 09, 2021, 02:45:59 AM
Its probably just a migration to http due to browsers ditching ftp support.  There's really no good reason to be using ftp today.
Title: Re: Zyxel FTP site gone
Post by: tubaman on October 09, 2021, 08:22:18 AM
Quote from: Alex Atkin UK on October 09, 2021, 02:45:59 AM
Its probably just a migration to http due to browsers ditching ftp support.  There's really no good reason to be using ftp today.
I've no issue with that part of it but firmware for older devices just isn't available on the http site, so it's a huge retrograde step in that respect.
 :(
Title: Re: Zyxel FTP site gone
Post by: Alex Atkin UK on October 09, 2021, 11:26:38 AM
Quote from: tubaman on October 09, 2021, 08:22:18 AM
I've no issue with that part of it but firmware for older devices just isn't available on the http site, so it's a huge retrograde step in that respect.
 :(

It is quite bizarre, its not like it should be hard to just throw a web server pointing at the old ftp content.
Title: Re: Zyxel FTP site gone
Post by: tubaman on October 09, 2021, 12:42:00 PM
Quote from: Alex Atkin UK on October 09, 2021, 11:26:38 AM
It is quite bizarre, its not like it should be hard to just throw a web server pointing at the old ftp content.
I've raised a support ticket to see what they say but I'm not holding my breath to be honest.
Title: Re: Zyxel FTP site gone
Post by: meritez on October 19, 2021, 03:34:01 PM
found another backup:
https://archive.org/download/2015-02-05.ftp.zyxel.com.tr
Title: Re: Zyxel FTP site gone
Post by: seanie on January 24, 2022, 08:45:35 AM
Sorry for the thread necromancy...

Just a note that at the time of writing, firmware files can be found here:

https://support.zyxel.eu/hc/en-us/articles/4403361365778-Advanced-Downloads-for-CPE-devices
Title: Re: Zyxel FTP site gone
Post by: majnu on February 10, 2022, 01:28:14 PM
Quote from: seanie on January 24, 2022, 08:45:35 AM
Sorry for the thread necromancy...

Just a note that at the time of writing, firmware files can be found here:

https://support.zyxel.eu/hc/en-us/articles/4403361365778-Advanced-Downloads-for-CPE-devices

The link in that site for the VMG8924-B10A doesn't work unfortunately
Title: Re: Zyxel FTP site gone
Post by: RealAleMadrid on February 10, 2022, 01:52:53 PM
@majnu  The link has an incorrect repeated text of "https://www.dropbox.com/"  If you delete that it will work, I just downloaded it as I have a VMG8924 as a spare modem/router not in use at the moment.